Hello: I am a new member of this your site and thanks to all of you for helping out others. Being new to CB's & Antennas I have a Cobra 19 DX 111 CB & a Wilson 500 magnetic mount antenna I have installed. I still have to sent the trim with my swr meter. My question is this : I bought a 54" whip for the wilson & wanted to find out if this would give me longer distance to transmit & receive , or , is this just overkill on my part ? The car I installed the system in is small . It is a 97 Toyota Tercel thats what lead me to think a longer antenna would help for max performance. Please let me know what you think. Sorry for the long post but they will be shorter as I learn more with your help & thoughts. Thanks , Dan.
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Wilson 500
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mollyzoe,
welcome to the best c.b. radio forum on the net.
if you can take the wilson 500 back do so, and get a wilson 1000. it will be a night and day difference in performance. so you bought an extra stinger? the longer stinger is for the 1000/5000 antennas. all you will end up doing is cutting it up to match the one on the 500 coil gaining you nothing in performance but lightening your wallet a $$. if you bought all this at a cb shop and the tech knew thats why you were buying it, i would find some place else to do business, becuase he should have told you this instead of taking your money.
welcome to the best c.b. radio forum on the net.
if you can take the wilson 500 back do so, and get a wilson 1000. it will be a night and day difference in performance. so you bought an extra stinger? the longer stinger is for the 1000/5000 antennas. all you will end up doing is cutting it up to match the one on the 500 coil gaining you nothing in performance but lightening your wallet a $$. if you bought all this at a cb shop and the tech knew thats why you were buying it, i would find some place else to do business, becuase he should have told you this instead of taking your money.
I bought the Wilson 500 & the 60" stinger because he told me its what I needed. I thank you for your help. I just went right along with this guy & found out the hard way. Next time I am thinking about buying any CB related items you can be sure I will come to this site & no other to find out the truth . Thanks for your help. Dan. I better bring a hacksaw with me & a new blade when I trim it with the SWR meter. Could you let me know about how much I should cut off just to get started ? Thanks again, Dan.